The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The "PlckWick Papers, Dickens best HIeTdry
work, owes its origin to the publisher of maya
zine upon which he was doing job work desiring
him to write a serial story to tit some comic
pictures which were in the puDhSlef pos
session.
THERE is a law in Washington Territory COM
polling the teachers of public schools to teach
physiology and hygiene, and if they do not teach
the same they cannot draw school money; also,
If the pupils will not study those studies tneJ
can be expelled from the school
RAY MITCHELL, a 7-year-old boy of Reno Cal,
recently stole S23 rs from hotel till, and was
sneaking out the back way when the hotel keep
er started in pursuit. The boy ran, but findlng
his purSuer was gaining on him he threw the
odd change on the street, and thus, delaying the
pursuit, Ray escaped with the rest OF the pun
der
JOHN II. ARNOLD, of Ballston, n. Y, has GU
riosity in the shape of parrot. Some time ago
it was noticed that the bird would try and fol
low Mr.. ArnOld's little girl when she said the
Lords prayer on retiring at night. The bird
has kept on from night to night, until he can re,
peat the whole prayer. Some evenings ne Will
repeat it several times
SIX SCOTCH bailies came to present an address
of cOngratulation TO Queen Victoria They ask
ed what they had to do on entering the Queens
presence, and were told they should kiss hands.
Thereupon hailie No l, as he solemnly stalked
past the throne, raised his hand to his mouth
and blew her majesty KISS. The remaining five
followed suit till a.se Queen had fit OF the
heartiest laughtefsaa had enjoyed for lorg
time.
THE Virginia City Enterprise says: 1.-THE
Piutes now havea squatter's claim upon the site
of the old opera house (burned in 1875 in the big
fire. on the east side of D street. Men, women
and children squat there daily, hour after hour,
engaged in the fascinating game of poker
Sometimes three or four games with ten to
twenty Indians in each circle, are to be seen in
blast at the same time. Their games are for
coins and for keeps
Lou ScARHERRY, a Scotia (Neb) butcher, ac-
companied by peace persuading bulldog, was
invited while meandering homeward Sunday
night, to throw up your hands, LOUIS dukes
went up and the dog went out into the dark
ness. mighty struggle enSued. Bones cracked
and wild yells were heard, in the midst of which
Lou scaInpered off unframed The bulldog
turned up a few hours afteTward, loaded with
scraps of old clothes and masticated cuticle.
FRED IRISH is the 14-yearold son of Mart
Irish, the village blacksmith of Deerfed Mich.
The other day he was loading a revolver, and,
finding the cartridges too large, he took the
chamber from the revolver and eSS1yed to push
them in with his teeth. The cartridges stood
this, but when he proceeded TO pound them III
with hammer they rebelled. The chamber of
the revolver is a total loss, but Fred saved one
of the balls catching it in his leg, and he has it
| yet.
THE fish story of the season is told by the
| Perkionen correspondent of the Reading Her
aid, who describes an exhibition made by a resi-
| dent of that place of two trained catfish which
were harneSSed to a boat and drew their owner
through the water at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour. After the trip the novel team seemed
| none the worse. except that one Of them was
| slightly blown and the other had one shoulder
| chafed by the harness." The owner is reported
| to be coming to Philadelphia to exhibit his team
| on the Schuylkill.
The Reno Journal says: "When Mr.. Gibson
| took charge of the Pyramid agency he con-
Guided to give names to all Jhe Indian children,
| and has named them after his friends or public
| men. The little folk are proud of their Ameri-
can names and like to hear the history OF the
| great men they are named after Among the
| boys there is Mark Twain. Professor Young, Bill
Gibson. Andy Jackson, Pete Dunn, John Logan,
| James G. Fair, j. P. jones, John Gillig, Jim
| Blaine, DR.. Dawson, George Cassidy, jeff Davis,
| and many others. The girls have an Emma
| Nevada, Aden Patti, Clara Morris, Ella Ben
| der, Laura Holman, Maud Doane, Lilly Snyder
| and others.
AN editor who has started newspaper in
| Muddy, Buford county. Oak says: ''At the
| present writing there are the following business
| houses here: One newspaper, restaurants, 1
| drug store lodging houses, hardware stores,
| general merchandise houses, 2 meat markets,
| barber shops q livery stables, bakeries, 2
| harness. makers. 4 music mans ana "A saloons
and club rooms, besides varions other industries
| overlooked in our enumeration A determine
| ton to make the paper of some use in elevating
| the moral and social tone of the place is evil
| dent from this paragraph from the same issue:
"A man must have a horrible disposition who
can take delight or pleasure in the brutal PAS
| time of shooting at woman"
A TABLET has been placed in the chapel of St.
Faith, Westminster Abbey in memory of Bishop
| McIlvaine and Of the shelter given there to his
remains by Dean Stanley while on the way from
| Italy to Ohio. It bears the following inscrip-
| ton: In this chapel, during Easter week Of
| 1873 by request Of the Dean, Arthur Penryhn
| Stanley, rested the remains of the Right Rev
| Charles Petit AlcIlvaine, ID. D., DEL. (OXonD
| LID. Cam }, Bishop of Ohio U. S. A. on their
| way from Florence where he died. to their III
| terment in his own diocese. This tablet COM
memorates an honor paid a prelate widely re-
spected and deeply beloved whose life and work
helped to draw together England and America
in one communion of faith and love-"
THREE Scottish miners, who spent an entire
night diving for the body of a companion who
had been swimming with the party and was not
seen to emerge, were completely tagged out at
| daybreak, when, at the suggestion of police
sergeant who joined the trio one OF the men
| started off to gently notify the drowned"
| miners wife Of his fate Shortly the nlesser, yer
| returned, almost GREATNESS, with the news that
! he had found the missing man asleep on the
| bank near by and that he was no more
| drowned than we are IL was subsequently,
| learned that he was under the weather. whom
| he took the dip, had scrambled out of the water
| unobserved, climbed the bank and lain down on
the grass by the road, where he slept the night
| through.
| AT Higgins Lake, Roscommon county. Mich.
| Mrs. Charles H. Petit and her little daughter,
| aged years were boating, when the little one ,
while gleefully capering about sprang into the
| water. The mother, in her anxiety and fright
1s th1N, ,t1,,.
chances were excellent for a double funeral
| Indeed, such would have been the case had not
| their horse, an intelligent French pony which
| had been turned loose TO Craze on the shore of
| the lake, come to their rescue. Alarmed by the
| screams of the mother and by the commotion
which the two made in the water the brave ami
| NAL swan boldly out To them, and when they
| had taken q secure hold of its name struggled
! back to shore, a tired but heroic pony. The
| animal was inclined to be balky and he never
| would pull anything but a light load but it will
| be cold weather when he ism prime favorite
| after this.
THE arrest of the Bishop of Argyll and the
Isles and his son as spies at Buzarea, in Algeria.
is the latest illustration of the spy fever in
| French territory" says the 81. James Gazette
1.-THE excuse for the of1icioasness of the gen
| darmes in this case is that the Bishop was al
| the time studying the lay of the country
| from hill by the aid of q map All remo1-
| StranceS, as usual in these cases, proved vain
| The Bishop and his son were marched off on
foot TO Algiers and brought up before an Off,
cial, who was with some difficulty induced to
set them at liberty on parole Sir Lambert
Playtair, the British Consul, at once laid com